🚀 Go REST API Example with Gin & Gorm

A simple example project showing how to build a REST API in Go using Gin, Gorm, and configuration files (config.yaml and .env).

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📁 Project Structure

go-restapi-example-with-gin/
├── config/ # Configuration files 
│ ├── config.yaml
│ └── config.go
├── internal/ # Core business logic
│ ├── handler/
│ ├── routes/
│ ├── database/
│ ├── utils/
│ └── model/
├── .env
├── main.go # Entry point
├── go.mod
├── go.sum
├── .gitignore
└── README.md

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⚙️ Example config.yaml

server:
  port: 8080

database:
  db_host: localhost
  db_port: 5432
  db_user: postgres
  db_name: example_db
  db_sslmode: disable

🔐 Example .env

DB_PASSWORD="your_password"

Application

🧩 Technologies Used Go 1.25.3

Gin — HTTP web framework

Gorm — ORM for database access

PostgreSQL

YAML / env

🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Dima-Melnik/go-restapi-example-with-gin.git
cd go-restapi-example-with-gin

3. Install dependencies

go mod tidy

4. Run the application

go run main.go